 | National Catholic Educational Association - 1913 - 1550 pages
...this statement. In that paper we heard that the national government laid down the principle, in 1787, that, "Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." That the meaning of this statute could not be taken in the limited sense as understood by Protestants... | |
 | Washington Gardner - Calhoun County (Mich.) - 1913 - 646 pages
...state was reached, a delegate might be sent to Congress. " Among other things, the Ordinance declared that ' ' Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged," and as an earnest of good faith, the 16th section in every township of land was set apart for the support... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1060 pages
...Northwest of the River Ohio1 In 1787." They declared by the third article of that celebrated instrument that "religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." At the same time, whilst authorizing the treasury to contract for the sale of the western lands, they... | |
 | Edith Abbott, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge - Chicago (Ill.) - 1917 - 492 pages
...Constitution of the United States, p. 134. Later the ordinance of 1787 contained the well-known declaration that "religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged."1 , It is, however, interesting to note that these grants for schools were due not wholly... | |
 | Education - 1953 - 348 pages
...hold dear as "the American Way of Life." The preamble to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 proclaimed that "Religion, Morality, and Knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." That policy has been incorporated in the constitution or statutes of every one of the 48 States and... | |
 | Arthur William Dunn - Citizenship - 1921 - 612 pages
...education was given by the Ordinance of 1787 under which the Northwest Territory was organized. It provided that "religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." As new states were organized from Nationaj sup. this Territory and from the public lands ac- port of... | |
 | Charles Henry Carey - Local author - 1922 - 1032 pages
...sanctity of private contracts." Adopting verbatim the language of the Ordinance of 1787, it declared that "religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." "The utmost good faith," said the law, "shall always be observed toward the indians, their lands and... | |
 | Howard Cromwell Taylor - School lands - 1922 - 154 pages
...means of education. These requirements were stated in the most general terms. The article simply stated that "religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary...mankind, schools and the means of education shall be encouraged." 2 The encouragement of schools and the means of education was thus made mandatory, but... | |
 | George Byron Catlin - Detroit (Mich.) - 1923 - 792 pages
...slavery in the new territory, which was the first enactment of the kind in the new world. It declared that "religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." It declared for civil and religious liberty and contained a law of contracts which is quite superior... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - History - 1924 - 970 pages
...press, the right of habeas corpus, or trial by jury, or the equal distribution of estates. The clause that, "religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged," was not there.' These omissions were the New England ideas, which had long before this been engrafted... | |
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Ohio," confirmed the ordinance of 1785, and declared " that religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged. 
